This chick was completely mislabeled in the store, I think. She was in a bin labeled Sapphire Olive Egger which should be a Cream Crested Legbar mix. After looking up numerous images and comparing to what the hatchery offers, I think maybe she's a Cochin?? She's black with white around her...
I finally found an incubator that works for me and I’m hatching some chicks from my Lemon Blue bantam Cochins. But I have a puzzle. The rooster is red brown and the hen lemon blue, but from the first clutch I hatched of 4 chicks, I have what look like two lemon splash chicks. This shouldn’t be...
I picked up these chicks yesterday. I meant to get three. In any case... I have a bunch of new birds. The woman I got them from had beautiful frizzles, sizzles, and silkies, and I think I saw a few SLW too? Not sure all what else was there, but was hearing these called frizzles and/or...
So about two years ago I lost my entire small flock of hens to hawks in a 48 hour period. I was allowing them to freerange. After this horrible experience of finding my hens disemboweled in piles of their own feathers I swore I’d never have chickens again (although I fully intended to) until I...
I have several bantam Cochin that I'm trying to figure out there colors. One is a rooster the other a hen.
I get splash or Columbian?
I'm at a loss please help.